so i think he came out so strongly, so when he doesn't appoint her and goes with someone like john kerry or tom donilon, his defense is already on record. and he didn't have to relitigate that in the press. >> i'll tell you what i saw yesterday, issue aside, i saw a president with a heightened level of testosterone gravitas, and maybe a precursor of what he's going to look like for the next four years. obviously, he's been going toe to toe. but there was an authority. i'm going to keep using the world testosterone, i thought a lot of that was missing in the first term. i saw that in a public volley eight days later. >> he spoke quickly in that press conference. did you notice? it's the fastest i've ever heard him speak, we got accustomed to a very slow methodic, kind of elongated speech pattern. handy came out, he was rapid, he was quick. >> he said, you got a problem, come to me. >> i found that very interesting. >> richard, what are you hearing, as the most connected in the intelligence community, at this table, certainly, about an outcome with his benghazi investigation? where this he